Who we be : the colorization of America / Jeff Chang.
Incorporating powerful images from a range of artistic venues, an intellectual follow-up to the award-winning Cant Stop Won't Stop considers how violent culture disputes are still occurring in spite of the past half century's progress in race relations.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
2014.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 403 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Rainbow power : Morrie Turner and the kids
- After Jericho : the struggle against invisibility
- "The real thing" : lifestyling and its discontents
- Every man an artist, every artist a priest : the invention of multiculturalism
- Color theory : race trouble in the avant-garde
- The end of the world as we know it : whiteness, the rainbow, and the culture wars
- Unity and reconciliation : the era of identity
- Imagine, ever wanting, to be : the fall of multiculturalism
- All the colors in the world : the mainstreaming of multiculturalism
- We are all multiculturalists now : visions of one America
- I am I be : identity in post time
- Demographobia : racial fears and colorized futures
- The wave : the hope of a new cultural majority
- Dis/union : the paradox of the post-racial moment
- Who we be : debt, community, and colorization
- Epilogue: Dreaming America.